Health Law Curriculum

American Health Law Association Program (AHLA) New York State of Health: Trendsetter or Over-Regulator?

Health Law Section Fall Meeting 2022: The Impact of NYS Assembly Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried on New York’s Health Care Delivery System

• Access to Health Care
• Civil Liberties
• Healthcare Decision-making/Patient Self-determination
• Healthcare Oversight and Enforcement

Representing Healthcare Professionals in Misconduct Investigations and Proceedings

Part 1 – Representing Healthcare Professionals In OPMC And OPD Investigations

Part 2 – Navigating OPD and OPMC Hearings and Appeals: Strategies for Success – February 2023

Part 3 – Representing The Impaired Healthcare Professional – May 2023

A Survey Of Healthcare Litigation: Hot Topics In Healthcare Litigation

• State And Federal Forums: Using the Broad Jurisdiction of State and Federal Courts to Not Simply Protect, but Advance, the Interests of Your Healthcare Clients
• Administrative Proceedings: How to Navigate Healthcare Related Administrative Proceedings to Protect Your Clients from Undue Harm
• Hot Topics in Healthcare Litigation: A Regulator’s Perspective

• Programs
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• This section will cover reimbursement issues for hospitals, physicians, skilled nursing facilities, pharmaceuticals, and other health care items and services, including emerging and pay-for-performance federal models such as:
  • Federal bundled payments;
  • Risk-sharing; and
  • Accountable care organizations.
• Programs
  • Annual Meeting 2022 – No Surprises Act & NYS Surprise Billing Law

• This section will cover reimbursement issues for hospitals, physicians, long-term care (nursing home and assisted living), pharmaceuticals, emerging pay-for-performance state models (including Pay-for-Performance and DSRIP), and other health care items and services.
• Programs
  • Annual Meeting 2022 – CMS Innovation Models & NYS Medicaid Waiver

• This section will cover reimbursement issues including ERISA, managed care, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act insurance rules; federal and state cost control mechanisms such as medical loss ratio (MLR); state and federal exchanges; and state insurance rules.
• Programs
  • TBA

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• Programs
  • Annual Meeting 2022 – Stark & Anti-kickback Updates
  • Annual Meeting 2022 – Post Pandemic Law Enforcement & Medicaid Program Integrity Priorities

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• Programs
  • TBA

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• Programs
  • Annual Meeting 2022 – Private Equity & Outside Investment in Health Care (investor’s perspective)
  • Annual Meeting 2022 – Antitrust & Regulatory Competition

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• Programs
  • TBA

This module addresses the federal and state regulations governing institutional and non-institutional provider operations. These include federal and state standards relating to matters such as patient rights; assessment and care planning; quality of life; quality of care; clinical services; food and nutrition services; administration; emergency preparedness; infection control; and the physical environment.

• Programs
  • Hospital, Long-Term Care and Home Care Fundamentals (in development)
    • Resources:
      • State Operations Manual Appendix A – Survey Protocol, Regulations and Interpretive Guidelines for Hospitals
      • State Operations Manual Appendix PP – Guidance to Surveyors for Long Term Care Facilities
      • “Nursing Home Reform: The Federal Landscape” (Health Law Section Fall Meeting 2021)
      • Annual Meeting 2022 – CMS Hospital Price Transparency
      • Navigating the Mental Hygiene Law: Understanding & Litigating Cases

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• Programs
  • TBA

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• Programs
  • Opioids & Controlled Substances: The Prosecution & Defense of Physicians

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• Programs
  • Overview of Mental Health Apps & Legal Privacy Concerns
  • Health Law Section Fall Meeting 2021 – State of Health Privacy Protection

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• Programs
  • TBA

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• Programs
  • Clinical, Legal, Ethical Considerations in Deliberative Democracy in a Pandemic
  • Mandating Your Employees Get Vaccinated? What NY Lawyers Need to Know (2021)
  • Health Law Section Fall Meeting 2021 – Vaccination: Equity and Mandates Panel
  • Nursing Home Residents’ Rights in the Time of COVID
  • Emerging Housing Issues Affecting Residents with Disabilities (2020)

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• Programs
  • Legislative & Health Policy Advocacy on Behalf of Vulnerable Populations
  • Immigration Advocacy & Perspectives of Health Law Psychology & Social Work (2021)
  • Health Law for Veterans (2020)
  • Health Law Section Fall Meeting 2021 – Racial & Health Care disparities: Maternal Morbidity & Mortality

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• Programs
  • Reframing Aging: Public Health, Legal, Ethical Challenges
  • Long Term Care in COVID-19: Navigating Legal, Medical & Ethical Issues (2020)
  • Annual Meeting 2022 – Law & Ethics: Individual Rights v. Common Good
  • Health Law Section Fall Meeting 2021 – Vaccination and Ethical Challenges